Детство в тюрьмеA first-hand record of the experiences of a boy in Stalin's prisons and labour camps. |
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Page 53
... lads ' relations , standing together in a group waving to us and we , plastering ourselves to the window , waved back to them . We threw over to them a couple of notes inside some bread , in which we explained every- thing that had ...
... lads ' relations , standing together in a group waving to us and we , plastering ourselves to the window , waved back to them . We threw over to them a couple of notes inside some bread , in which we explained every- thing that had ...
Page 106
... lads from Verkhoturie . See you don't do them any harm . ' Goldie wagged his head in reply and the duty warder left . All the denizens of the dormitory at once crowded round us . Among them were some lads who had come from Verkhoturie ...
... lads from Verkhoturie . See you don't do them any harm . ' Goldie wagged his head in reply and the duty warder left . All the denizens of the dormitory at once crowded round us . Among them were some lads who had come from Verkhoturie ...
Page 123
... lad fell . In protest against this act of lawlessness we all lay down in the snow . The warders were obliged to carry us to the punishment block . Once we were there , all twelve of us in the one cell decided to set fire to it . The ...
... lad fell . In protest against this act of lawlessness we all lay down in the snow . The warders were obliged to carry us to the punishment block . Once we were there , all twelve of us in the one cell decided to set fire to it . The ...
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Abanya accused activists Army Commander arrested arrived Article 58 asked Astrakhan batch of prisoners bath-house began bread ration brought called camp carriage charge Chelyabinsk Chervonets colony Commissar compartment compound convicted Corps Commander counter-revolutionary death doctor door duty warder eau de cologne escape escort commander father floor Garkavy Goldie grammes of bread Grandfather guard head heard hunger strike imprisonment interrogation Kiev kilometres Kirov Kostya lads later Leningrad lorry Lyudmila Sergeevna makhorka measures of social Medvezhia Military Collegium Mischa Medved morning Moscow Moskovkin mother night Nikolayev Nizhnyaya Tura NKVD officer organisation person prison governor punishment block Pyotr Yakir railway Robert Conquest rogues Russian Saratov sent sentenced Sergei Fyodorovich Sevurallag shot shouted skilly social defence Solovki Soviet Stalin station Stolypin sugar Sverdlovsk Syzran taken thieves things told took transferred transit prison trial Uborevich USSR Verkhoturie Volga Germans Voroshilov window Yura